Over the Edge readings resume

Bobbie Sparrow, Art Ó Súilleabháin and Ailbhe Darcy are the featured readers at this month’s Over the Edge: Open Reading,

It will take place in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 31, from 6.30-8pm and is the first Over the Edge since the summer break.

Headford resident, Bobbie Sparrow is a psychotherapist and a poet. She was long-listed for the Over the Edge new writer’s award 2015/16 and shortlisted for the Galway University Poetry Competition 2016. Her poems have been published in Orbis, Picaroon and The Rose Magazine.

Art Ó Súilleabháin was born in Galway and spent his early years in Boston, before his family returned to Corr na Móna.

A longtime educationalist, he has published a number of books for children ‘as Gaeilge’ but is now working on poems and stories in English for adults. His work has been broadcast on RTE Radio One’s Sunday Miscellany. He lives on the shores of Lough Corrib.

Ailbhe Darcy grew up in Dublin, and has since lived in the United States, Germany and Wales, where she teaches creative writing at Cardiff University.

Selections of her work are included in the Bloodaxe poetry anthologies Identity Parade and Voice Recognition, and in the Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, Volume 4. Her first full-length collection, ImaginaryMenagerie, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2011. Recent poems have appeared in POETRY, Poetry Ireland Review and Poetry Wales, and a second solo collection, Insistence, is due to be published by Bloodaxe in 2018.

There will be the usual open-mic after the featured readers have finished.

The evening will also see the announcement of the long list for the 2017 Over the Edge New Writer of The Year competition. This year’s event received a large number of entries.

The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.

For further details phone 087-6431748.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.